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TILE GUTTER APPLICATION FILED FEB. 19. 1907.

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PATEN'I'ED DEG. 1'7, 1907.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH FREUND, OF CRYSTAL CITY, MISSOURI.

TILE GUTTER.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH FREUND, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in Crystal City, in the county of Jefferson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tile Gutters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a sectional tile gutter for successfully carrying the water shed from a roof or a series of roofs and so constructed that the requisite drop or slope necessary to drainage of the gutter is obtained for drainage from a high point to a low point, due to the depth of each succeeding section in the gutter being tapered and of a depth in excess of the preceding section.

The invention further relates to a novel form of supporting brackets for the gutter sections, whereby the tapered sections are upheld in proper co-relation with the mating sections and retained in assembled positions.

Figure I is a top or plan view of a gutter constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. II is a rear elevation of the gutter. Fig. III is a longitudinal section taken through the gutter. Figs. IV, V and VI are enlarged cross sections taken on lines IV, V and VI, Fig. III. Fig. VII is an enlarged cross section of the gutter and the supporting means therefor. Fig. VIII is an enlarged longitudinal section taken through two mating gutter sections and one of the section supporting brackets. Fig. IX is an end view of the discharge section of the gutter. Fig. X is a cross section of a double gutter made in accordance with my improvement.

1, 2, 3 and 4 are sections of my utter which may be of any desirable lengt and which may be supplemented by additional sections for the purpose of making the gutter of the proper length according to the length of the roof in connection with which the gutter is used. The section 1 of the gutter as herein illustrated is that at or nearest the high point of the gutter and the section 4 is the one at the lowermost point ofthe gutter where discharge is effected into a downspout which may be of any desired form and connected to said last named section by association with a neck 5 at the lower side of the section.

The sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all of tapering or sloping form and they increase in Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 19, 1907. $erial No. 358.175.

Patented Dec. 17, 1907.

depth in the order in which they have been named. Each succeeding section of the gutter in the order named is therefore rendered susceptible of carrying a greater body of water to provide the proper drainage of the water shed from the roof with which the gutter is used. The upper edge of the outer wall of the gutter therefore extends in a horizontal line while the bottom of the gutter extends at a slope to a horizontal line for the proper drainage as is clearly illustrated in igs. III to VI inclusive. At each end of each of the gutter sections extending from edge to edge and at the lower side thereof is a transverse external rib designated in the respective sections as 1, 2, 3- and 4.

6 designates channeled or grooved brackets for supporting the gutter sections and which are made of depths corresponding to the depths of the gutter sections at their ends which are mounted upon the brackets whereby the gutter sections are so upheld as to provide for their uniform alinement with each other. Each bracket is provided at its sides with upturned flanges 7 extending from edge to edge for the purpose of furnishing the channels or grooves within the brackets in which the external ribs at the ends of the gutter sections rest for the purpose of reventing separation of the sections. W on the sections are laid upon said brackets I seal the joints between them by introducing a filler or body a of elastic cement such as Marine glue or pitch introduced between the mating or adjacent ends of a part of the sections, thereby providing for the expansion and contraction of the gutter sections in changes of temperature without detriment to the gutter. It is unnecessary, however, to: utilize elastic cement between the ends of all of the sections to permit expansion and contraction in the gutter and I therefore may use in some of the joints a different bond such, for instance, as one composed of Portland cement and sand.

For the purpose of providing for the support of the bracket 6 and the gutter sections I produce a bolt hole in each bracket adapted to receive a bolt 8 which passes through each gutter section and the bracket and may be mounted in a fixed part of the building with which the gutter is used as illustrated in Fig. VII. I further, for the support of the brackets, provide each bracket at the rear thereof and at its lower side with a depending lug 9 which is adapted to be mounted upon any suitable member such as a longitudinal lower angle bar 10 secured to a fixed art of a building as also illustrated in Fig. V I.

11 are inverted longitudinal rear angle bars riveted or otherwise suitably secured to the gutter sections and having rearwardly extending flanges which are adapted to seat beneath and be secured to inverted longitudinal upper angle bars 12 at the top of the gutter and suitably aflixed to a fixed part of the building on which the gutter is mounted.

In Fig. X I have shown my gutter of double form and composed of sections designated 2", 3 and 4*, the sections being of similar form to those previously described with-the exception that each section is provided with two sloping wings to receive water from the two adjoining roofs instead of having a single sloping wing to receive water from a single roof. The supporting brackets 6 correspond in cross section to the supporting brackets previously described and are double winged to conform to the shape of the double gutter section.

It will be seen that each section of my gutter has a sloping wing which is opposite to the vertical wall of the gutter section. This wing is adapted to be made of a pitch conforming to the slope or pitch of the roof with which the gutter herein described is used. This wing of each section is designed to be placed beneath the roofing material which laps thereover with the result-of producing a tight joint between the roofing material and the gutter. The gutter of single form herein described is particularly designed for use in what is commonly known as saw tooth roofs while the gutter of double form is designed for use in double roofs wherein the pitch lines converge toward each other.

Claims:

1. A tile gutter comprising a series of sloping gutter sections of different depths, each gutter section being formed with an external transverse rib at each end extending across the gutter section to the longitudinal edges of the gutter section, and series of means supporting said gutter sections by the whole width of the ribbed ends; substantially as set forth.

2. A tile gutter comprising a series of sloping gutter sections of different depths, each gutter section being formed with an external transverse rib at each end extending across the gutter section to the longitudinal edges of the gutter section, and series of means of different depths, corresponding to the depths of the gutter sections and support ing said gutter sections by the whole width of the ribbed ends; substantially as set forth.

3. A tile gutter comprising a series of slop ing gutter sections of different depths, each gutter section being formed with an external transverse rib at each end extending across the gutter section to the longitudinal edges of the gutter section, and series of brackets of different depths, corresponding to the depths of the gutter sections, each bracket being formed with a channel providing upturned flanges extending to the longitudinal edges of the gutter sections, and supporting said gutter sections by the whole width of the ribbed ends; substantially as set forth.

4. A tile gutter comprising a series of gut ter sections, each gutter section being formed with an external transverse rib at each end extending across the gutter section to the longitudinal edges of the gutter section, series of brackets each being formed with a channel providing upturned flanges extending to the longitudinal edges of the gutter sections, and supporting said gutter sections by the whole length of the ribbed ends, and fillings between the ribbed ends of the gutter sections; substantially as set forth.

'5. A tile gutter comprising a series of gut ter sections having transverse end ribs at their lower sides, supporting brackets having channels or grooves for the reception of the ribs of said gutter sections, and an elastic filler interposed between the adjacent ends of two of said gutter sections, substantially as set forth.

6. A tile gutter comprising a series of gutter sections, each gutter section being formed with an external transverse rib extending across the gutter section to the longitudinal edges of the gutter section, series of brackets each being formed with a channel providing upturned flanges extending to the longitudinal edges of the gutter sections and supporting said gutter sections by the whole length of their ribbed ends, and a filling located in each channel and overlapping the flanges beneath the adjacent ribbed ends of said gutter sections; "substantially as set forth.

7. A tile gutter comprising a series of gutter sections each having an inverted longitudinal rear angle bar, supporting brackets each having a lug, a longitudinal lower angle bar on which the brackets are supported by their depending lugs, and an inverted longitudinal upper angle bar to which the rear angle bars of said gutter sections are fastened.

JOSEPH FREUND.

In presence of BLANOHE HOGAN, LILY Ros'r. 

